Manicuring implement.



No. 875,681. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908.

D. F. ASBURY. MANIURING IMPLEMENT.

AP IIIIIII 0N 1-"1L11D`JAN-30, 1907.

DORSEY F. ASBURY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

MANICURING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. '7, 1908.

Application tiled January 30* 1907. Serial No. 354.924.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Donsnr F. Asumir, a citizen of the 'united States, residing at W ashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Manicuring Implements, of which the .following is a specification.

This invention relates to manicuring implements and more especially to a means for pushing back the 'llesh of the lingers, where the former overlies the nails.

My device preferably includes in its make up a wheel or disk of peculiar construction, as will hereinafter appear, and this wheel or disk may be rotatively .mounted in any suitable way, for example, upon a stem or handle or upon the head of the compound tool shown in my copcnding application, Serial Number 305,825, iiled March 13, 1906. This wheel is concaved on its inner side to conform as nearly as possible to the convexity of a nail and its periphery is preferal'ily milled or otherwise roughcned to add to the elliciency thereof and said periphery is also preferably tapered inward. On the rotation of the wheel, with the concave/d portion thereof upon a nail and with the periphery thereof against the margin of the flesh overlying said nail, by the movement of said wheelback and forth against said margin and upon slight endwise pressure of a stem or other wheel-carrier such flesh will be pushed back or smoothed off without any discomfort and in a satisfactory rapid manner. The wheel may be made in a variety of ways and although this point in itself is not of my invention, I deem it desirable to state that said wheel may be pressed `from sheet metal, forged from suitable stock, milled from a 'flat plate or otherwise produced.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification I show in detail certain forms of embodiment of the invention which to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same will be fully disclosed in the following description, while the novelty of the invention will be included in the claims succeeding such descriptimi.

Referring to said drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view and Fig. 2 a side elevation of a manicuring implement involving my invention and both iigures illustrating the manner of use of the device. Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of the flesh-pushing wheel. Figs. 4 and 5 are elevations at right angles to each other of a slightly modified form of wheel,

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the wheel shown in said Figs. `rl and 5, and I have shown above said Fig. 0 a portion of F ig. 5 for the purpose of indicating that said Fig. 6 is an exact projection of said Fig. 5.

.Like characters refer to like. parts throughout the several ligures.

From what has been stated it will be understood that the implement includes a llesh pushing wheel and the wheel shown in the drawings vfor pushing back the flesh overlying a nail or nails is designated in a general way by 2. il have mentioned that this wheel may be rotatively supported in any desirable way, for example, upon a stem or handle..

as 3. Or the saidwheel may form part of the compound tool covered in the application hereinbefore identified. The stem or handle 3 is shown as consisting of an elongated body, the upper and lower sides of whie h are l lat and are provided with lilo surfaces. T he upper surface may be rough or coarse, while the lower surface may be fine. I mention this simply as an example, for the arrangement may bo reversed and the handle or stem might be plain, although it preferably has the lile surfaces which can be effectively utilized in manicuring. Along one edge of the stem or handle 3 I may form a. hollow file or a `lile surface in a channel extending along said edge which may be also employed in manicuring work. At what might be considered the rear end of the stem or handle 3 is a knife blade as 4, the point of which is so shaped as to pass under the nails Vfor the purpose of removing dirt from such spaces7 while the cutting edge of the blade can be utilized for paring the nails. At the front end of the stem or handle 3 is a proj ection as 5 which is disposed at an angle to said stem or handle by virtue of which the handle. or stem when the wheel hereinafter described is placed against a nail can be held at an upward angle so that the user of the implement can conveniently manipulate the same.

'lhe wheel 2 is pivoted as by a 'pivot (i to the projection 5 and the pivot in the present case is disposed centrally of the wheel 2. The wheel 3 may be made of tool steel, soft steel, iron, or any other material that may be desired and the same statement applies to its stem or carrier. The under side of the wheel is concavod as at 7 to agree substantially or as near as possible with the convexity of the linger nail and when the wheel is in use it lies closely against the nail, by virtue of which its periphery can on the rotation of the Wheel ing ro tatively connected With the Wheel on engage against the flesh overlying said nail to i only one side thereof, the other side of the Aeled edge of the Wall ofthe recess 2.

push the flesh back or push back any dead or oosened skin. To add to the effectiveness of Vthe Wheel, its periphery is preferably milled or otherwise roughened so that the Wheel can take a better hold of the flesh or so that slippage of the Wheel With respect to the flesh is not possible. Said periphery in addition to being milled is tapered inward, the effect of this being When the Wheel is in action to push back the flesh in such a Way that When the operation is concluded the flesh Will merge into the nail in a curved and gradual manner, that is, the flesh Will not be either flattened doWn or stand up abruptly from the nail.

The carrier for the flesh-pushing Wheel is shown as rotatively connected With said Wheel on only one side thereof, by reason of Which the concaved side of the Wheel can be readily placed against the nail of a hnger.

In operation the handle or stem 3 is held in one hand When it becomes necessary to treat the other hand and vice versa. It Will be assumed that one hand is to be manicured it, therefore, follows that the handle is held by the other hand and When thus held the milled periphery of the Wheel 2 is placed against the flesh overlying one of the nails With the concaved face of the Wheel iitting said nail. The Wheel is then bodily moved entirely along said flesh from one end to the other an d during this motion the Wheel is turned and said Wheel also serves to roll or push back the flesh in the manner hereinbefore set forth.

The modified form of Wheel shown in Figs. 4 and 5 is denoted in a general Way by 2 and it has in its periphery a recess or cut-out portion 2", the upper or outer edge of the Wall of Which is beveled to present a scraping porti'on. The said edge is longitudinally concavely curved to conform as nearly possible to the shape of a finger nail. The terminal portions of said Wall are beveled or eutaWay somewhat so as to prevent injury to the flesh of a linger When the lateral port-ions of the nail thereof are beingl scraped by the bev- The recess 2 is preferably located in the upper side of the said periphery With this exception the Wheel 2 is the same as the Wheel 2.

What I claim is: l. A manicuring implement having a carrier and a flesh pushing Wheel, the carrier be- Wheel being concaved.

. 2.- A manicuring implement having a carrier and a flesh pushing Wheel, the carrier being rotatively connected With the Wheel on onlyone side thereof, the other side of the Wheel being concaved to Vlit the nail of a finand the periphery of the Wheel being roughened.

3. A manicuring implement having a carrier and a Wheel, thecarrier being rotatively connected With the Wheel on only one side thereof, the other side of the Wheel being concaved to fit the linger nail, and the periphery of the Wheel'being tapered.

4. A manicuring implement having a carier and a Wheel, the carrier being rotatively connected With. the Wheel on only one side thereof, the other side of the Wheel being concaved to fit the nail of a finger, and the periphery of the Wheel tapering toward the concaved surface and being also roughened.

A flesh pushing Wheel having a concaved side to lit a finger nail, the periphery of the vwheel being tapered inWard toward said concaved side.

6. A manicuring Wheel, the periphery of Which has a recess, one edge of the Wall of Which is beveled to provide a scraping portion.

7. A manicuring Wheel having a tapered periphery and a concaved under surface, said periphery havin0l a circular recess, one odge of the Wall of Which is beveled to provide a scraping portion.

8. A manicuring implement having au elongated stem or handle and a flesh pushing Wheel, the handle or stem being connected with one side only of the Wheel, the other side of the Wheel being concaved to Vlit the nail of a finger.

9. A manicuring implement having a carrier and a flesh-pushing Wheel, the carrier being connected With the Wheel on only one side thereof and the periphery of the Wheel being roughened to cause rotation of the Wheel when moved in contact With the flesh.

In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

' DORSEY F. ASBUR'Y. litnessesz HENRY J. STAMBAUGH, (lues. A. VVA'rsoN. 

